School of Business

Our Risk-Free Period Program enables you to take up to three weeks of your first credit-bearing course with no financial obligation. See what it’s like to be a School of Business student, and explore your education possibilities with confidence.

Our new Associate of Arts with a concentration in Hospitality Fundamentals can help you elevate your career. The curriculum incorporates official content from the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute® (AHLEI) and helps prepare you for two AHLEI certification exams.

The University of Phoenix School of Business is ranked among the best in the U.S. in LinkedIn’s “Best Schools for Marketers.” The rankings, which were released in October 2014, are based on self-reported career outcome data of more than 313 million LinkedIn members.

You know that higher education is essential to your career and that completing your degree can take time. Choose our undergraduate certificate option so you won’t have to wait for graduation to show employers you mean business.

From undergraduate accounting courses using Intuit QuickBooks® to graduate classes that prepare students for CPA licensure with Wiley CPAexcel®, our curriculum is designed to help working professionals throughout their accounting careers, from day one.

Discover your true potential

Today’s highly competitive job market means an education that prepares students for work is more important than ever. Education must help learners develop the skills employers need. By providing degree programs relevant to today’s working world, along with job search resources to uncover new career opportunities, the University of Phoenix School of Business stands ready to help you solidify your long-term success in business.

Certificate option

By selecting our certificate option, you can earn two credentials by the time you graduate. Choose to take career-focused courses earlier in your undergraduate degree program, and earn a certificate as well as your diploma. Or, you can opt to complete your associate degree en route to your bachelor’s degree.

Associate en route certificates

(Upon successful completion, you’ll receive a certificate as well as your degree.)

The School of Business helps develop leaders in many fields. We offer associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs covering a wide range of business disciplines — such as marketing, human resources, finance, entrepreneurship and more.

You and the School of Business

You can be confident that our curricula are designed to offer academic quality and professional relevance. Not only are many of our business degree programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), but they also address needs within U.S. businesses. Our coursework helps develop skills important to job success, such as idea development, analytical thinking, planning and effective communication.

As a student, you’ll experience firsthand how to apply business principles to the working world from faculty members who average 20.5 years of business experience. In fact, more than 450 instructors have served as chief executive officers of their respective organizations. Additionally, more than 150 chief financial officers, nearly 100 chief operating officers and more than 1,500 company presidents are teaching our courses at any time throughout the year.

We also provide a unique benefit through our partnerships with national associations in manufacturing, retail, hospitality and energy to develop multiple educational options for their corporate members. Many nationally recognized corporations, such as AT&T and Hitachi, have formed corporate partnerships with us to educate their employees. Many of these partners post open jobs in the Phoenix Career Services™ portal for our students and alumni to consider.